"My numbers are tanking, my Party is in open rebellion, I really need a good policy that the public can get behind me on....."

#KeirStarmer #Starmer #DigitalID #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour

Analysis: “A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran

"It's not clear if Trump himself understands this, but everyone around him knows they did not verifiably destroy the nuclear program last night."

Re "actually impacting Iran’s capabilities, the strike was largely symbolic."

But "it's the first time we're bombing a state [with] the capacity to inflict serious harm on Americans in the region.”

~Harrison Mann, fmr US army major

dropsitenews.com/p/iran-united…

#US-IranWar #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol .

“A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran With Attacks on Nuclear Sites

Iran has now been forced to decide how to respond to U.S. attacks on its sovereignty.

^{Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)}

Interview: "Stop the War on Iran": 1,000+ academics Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza

"After Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence."

"What this is doing is immiserating further the lives of ordinary people" ~Iranian-American scholar Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U, Chicago

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/ira…

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #AntiWarProtests .

Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide

After President Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence.

^{Democracy Now!}

Interview: "Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East"

Although UN inspectors & U.S. intelligence assessments say Iran was not building nuclear weapons, Netanyahu wanted to drag Trump into its war on Iran.

"The danger now is that, having brought the U.S. into this, Israel will seek to go further up the escalatory ladder. It wants the chaos.”

~Daniel Levy, fmr Israeli peace negotiator

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/isr…

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Trump #Israel .

Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East

“Netanyahu’s purpose was to drag Trump in,” Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, says of the U.S. attack on Iran. Over the weekend, the U.S.

^{Democracy Now!}

Interview: "They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence" Israel’s war on Iran

"The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media."

Unpacking the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War:

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…

#Israel-IranWar #US #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #USImperialism #iraqWar #boughtMedia .

'They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence' Chris Hedges on Israel’s war on Iran | The Listening Post

The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media. Chris Hedges joins us to unpack the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War

^{Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)}

Netanyahu the opportunist

Netanyahu is living out the Zionists' (incl his daddy's) dream of expelling the Palestinians, wiping out all enemies, & fulfilling the "Greater Israel" project (see map ).

Zionists have been doing ethnic cleansing, slow genocide & stealing Palestinian land since imperial Britain gave them the go-ahead in the 1920s.

Pappé on Nakba
youtube.com/watch?v=vx0QUTui6G…

#Zionism #Nakba #Netanyahu #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement @palestine .

So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

I've still not heard back from my MP Steve Reed, about the letter I sent to him about this.

Shower of bastards.

#Labour #Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct #UKPOL #UKPolitics

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.

^{Open Rights Group}

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.

US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:

🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'

The Home Office must back off ✋

#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy

washingtonpost.com/technology/…

It couldn't be clearer: Encryption is online safety.

It keeps our data secure from hackers. Our systems secure from global bad actors. Our rights secure from State oppression in a digitalised society.

Sign and share our petition to save Apple encrypted data ⬇️

#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

Keep our Apple data encrypted

It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.

^{38 Degrees}

Turns out ecologists and entomologists around the world have been warning about declining insect numbers for years. The culprits are climate change, habitat loss, light pollution, intensive farming, pesticide and fertiliser use. But it’s a struggle to get people to act.

It’s not just about bees and butterflies, the poster children of the pollinator world. Other, less photogenic pollinators such as hoverflies, moths, wasps, soldier beetles and earwigs are also showing declines. Several of these species don’t just pollinate. They also eat the pest insects that ruin crops.

Already, in the apple and pear orchards of south-west China, depleted populations of pollinators have forced farmers to hand-pollinate their trees, carrying pots of pollen and paintbrushes with which to individually pollinate every flower. If it sounds labour-intensive and time-consuming, that’s because it is.

#green #ukpolitics #uspol #ukpol #climate #environment #insects #agriculture #farming

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WHITE SUPREMACISTS FEAR GENDER NON-CONFORMITY

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The idea underlying white male supremacy is at least 6000 years old

Class hierarchy - which arose with the city state - came out of earlier patriarchal notions of women's "natural" inferiority

The ancients held gender nonconformity to be "womanly", hence "weak"

This "womanly, hence weak" label became attached to other out-groups as politically required

origins of misogyny
independentaustralia.net/polit…

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#USPol #UKPol #CdnPoli #AusPol

Coalition's misogyny stems from a history of female oppression

The key to ending the misogynistic attitudes of our governing politicians may be in examining the history of the Western patriarchy.

^{Independent Australia}